Only about 4 weeks now

So I will be leaving on my mission in about four weeks. On Wednesday the 9th it will be four weeks exactly. I can't believe how fast it has gone. I feel like it has almost gone by too fast. There so much to do and so little time. I got a letter from my mission President. It was really cool to see that he had actually written me. He encouraged me to be prayerful as I approach by departure date. He also said to study Preach My Gospel. I have worked on it a little already. In the letter there was also a larger map of my mission area. It's a little easier to see and it looks like I cover a very very small portion of Montana and Iowa so that's a total of seven states that I will cover. Below is a picture of the map.

It was also really cool yesterday because I went to the temple again. The youth from our ward was going down so I decided to tag along. I also invited my friend, Amanda so we could go through an endowment session together. We got there at about 10:00 and we hurried so we could make it to the 10:30 session. Amanda and I went in and got changed and when we walked into the session we realized it was a Spanish session. It was kind of cool because we had to wear the translation headphones. It was strange to me on the other side of things and not be able to understand what was going on unless we had them on. At the end when they said the prayer we could feel the sprit VERY strongly, even though we couldn't understand. I would actually recommend that everyone do it at least once in their lifetime. It's very enjoyable. Not only were we blessed enough to feel the spirit so strongly during the session, but after we were asked if we would like to do some sealings. Of course we jumped at the opportunity and were so glad that we did. It was a very special experience and I will remember it for the rest of my life. I have grown to love the temple even more than I thought I ever could and enjoy every minute that I am there. It is truly an amazing thing to go there and do the work.